My constituents in the Texas gulf coast are very concerned about the price of gasoline, especially in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Katrina has left nine gulf coast refineries inoperable, and reduced capacity at four. This will mean the loss of 20 to 40 million...
"Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable. … People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything...
U.S. influence in the process of drafting a constitution for Iraq is excessive and "highly inappropriate," a United Nations official says. "It is a matter of public record that in the final weeks of the process the newly arrived U.S. ambassador [Zalmay...
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As gas prices continue to soar, both reflecting and promoting bad foreign and domestic policies, it's time to recognize that there is another way. We don't have to be imperialists, bombing and attacking oil-rich nations. We don't need to invade and occupy much of the...
"What are words for, when no one listens anymore?" - Missing Persons Michael Ignatieff is, by almost any measure, much smarter than the average bear. I am likely to be one of those bears, as are you. Dr. Ignatieff, in fact, is a well-regarded professor of...
In spite of my natural inclination to say something in response to some of the ominous developments in the wake of Katrina, I'm going to hold my tongue until Monday. I haven't had a real vacation in years, and this is an opportunity to survey the terrain, collect my...
For more than a year, representatives of 35 member states have been preparing a draft "outcome document" for the "high-level event" (HLE) involving heads of state that will immediately precede this month's 60th session of the UN General Assembly....
The raison d'etre of the Bush administration is war in the Middle East in order to protect America from terrorism and to ensure America's oil supply. On both counts the Bush administration has failed catastrophically. Bush's single-minded focus on the "war against...
It is important to be responsible in discussing the aftermath of what seems to be developing into the worst, most destructive national disaster in this nation's history. There is a human tendency to fix blame, and in the political arena to fix blame on one's political...
